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kaydee777
Dec 52 min read
Spiraling toward solstice
It’s that time of year again when nighttime temperatures plummet and my household minions mutiny. Both the hot water heater and the heat...
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kaydee777
Nov 293 min read
Winter green. And yellow. And red.
Every time I go out to harvest a bunch of peppery arugula and mizuna greens I find the Indie-folk group, The East Pointer’s 2019 song,...
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kaydee777
Nov 223 min read
Fever dreams
I lost a day this week to self induced fever dreams. Not knowing what the kakistocracy* will bring, I chose to submit to an annual Covid...
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kaydee777
Nov 184 min read
In the mountains, there you feel free
Even the sky seemed to want to scratch out something that day. The first Wednesday of November an early morning drive-by of news...
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kaydee777
Nov 162 min read
Waning into winter
Having kept me up all night, just before sunrise I catch the full moon sneaking behind the apricot tree, slipping towards the western...
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kaydee777
Nov 151 min read
Howling not singing
Coyotes sing at night in the desert. I don’t know if it’s their lovely wild ruckus or the very bright full moon making me restless...
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kaydee777
Nov 111 min read
First frost, last harvest
I haven’t had much of a food garden this year for various reasons including extended periods of extreme heat, drought and the dismal...
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kaydee777
Nov 102 min read
And the participation award goes to…
Then there was this: the shala became a featured stop on an artists studio tour. I signed up to participate in this first ever event...
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kaydee777
Nov 91 min read
The wild dance of no hope
My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here. Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice....
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kaydee777
Nov 22 min read
Soda dam
A mile or two north of the village of Jemez Springs is a 7000 year old natural geological phenomenon known as Soda Dam , though thanks to...
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kaydee777
Nov 22 min read
Autumn forest bathing: expedition notes 2
The phenologists were probably correct. The prolonged heat and drought and lack of sudden freeze have had an impact on autumn leaf color...
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kaydee777
Oct 271 min read
Autumnal stillness
While the iris which was purchased as Coyote Ugly, and is blooming completely out of season, might actually not be Coyote Ugly since it...
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kaydee777
Oct 235 min read
Forest bathing autumn edition: expedition notes day 1
“It’s been so unusually hot and dry. There won’t be good leaf color this year,” I kept reading while doing research into leaf peeping in...
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kaydee777
Oct 222 min read
An ambiguous utopia: true voyage is return*
“They aren’t going to come back” I had been thinking, almost reconciled to the saffron crocus ( Crocus sativus ) being lost to the...
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kaydee777
Oct 183 min read
Storied street food: metaphor and meal
Cooling on the rack today: a bunch of wobbly, misshapen versions of samosas, the quintessential Indian street food, which it turns out...
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kaydee777
Oct 132 min read
A festival of handprinting
Eleven vintage suitcases of freshly block printed cloth and one small case of hand printed cards accompanied me this weekend for a...
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kaydee777
Oct 93 min read
Coyote Ugly
While Florida battens down the hatches and evacuates ahead of mad bad Milton, it is perfect weather in the northern Chihuahuan desert....
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kaydee777
Oct 42 min read
Meanwhile
Hello autumn light! Spider season is upon us. Cobwebs appear everywhere. I am grateful that they are snaring the biting gnats which are...
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kaydee777
Oct 24 min read
Drive. Camp. Paddle.
Planning for the eastern NM Route 66 explorations can best be summed up as drive, camp, paddle (with eating in there, of course) I left...
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kaydee777
Oct 15 min read
Moth to a flame: Tucumcari tonight!
Perhaps nothing is more quintessential American road trip than the experience of sizzling, dazzling, charismatic neon roadside business...
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